>>55562784People pretending BW wasn't despised when it came out are DS zoomers who grew up and try to pretend this failure of a game wasn't a shitfest.
I played BW a few years back to see how much my opinion would change, for one they really ramped up the forced cutscene shit compared to previous gens, most new mons looked either boring or shite or they evolved so late into the game that I didn't feel like using them, this game has a bigger dex limit problem than Platnium. The game's routes were really linear, there was pretty much 0 incentive to explore, you don't get the fucking fishing rod until fucking post-game, which means several Water types aren't available until after the game is over for no good reason. They desperately try to force you to use the shitty elemental monkeys during the first gym. The story is bleh, I'm not a teenage girl or a faggot so I don't care about N. I admit I started really loving some gen 5 mons like Archeops, Ferrothorn and Excadrill, I also got a shiny Lillipup as my first encounter on route 1 during Christmas morning which is when I decided to play the game for the first time, so that was nice. In summation, my opinion of the game barely changed, this game gets flack for very good reason and it's few "praises" are overhyped by a bunch of dumb kids who want to pretend this game was amazing because they grew up with it. I didn't even finish BW2 due to boredom, I hate how much the game tries to coddle you, even gives you free legendaries as route encounters.
